<p>University of Tokyo
Alabama
Florida
Oregon
Kansas State
Stanford
Georgia
LSU
Texas A&M
London School of Economics</p>
<p>Something like that anyways.</p>
<p>And people need to calm down about this Berkeley love/hate relationship thing.</p>
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<p>No way you’re missing Eastern Michigan</p>
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<p>Revised:
<p>In no particular order:</p>
<p>Harvard
Cambridge
Oxford
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Stanford
MIT
UCL
I really can’t think of another to be in the top 10… maybe UPenn??</p>
<p>UChicagoKid, 20more & rebel11, so for you, the ranking of the best universities in the world must be based purely on schools’ admissions? If that’s the case, then the IIT’s in India would all make up the top 5. </p>
<p>So there. Satisfied now?</p>
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<p>No way Cal is ranked waaaaaaaaaaaay too high</p>
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Umm excuse me but Emory offers artichokes in its cafeteria. I like artichokes and therefore the presence of them greatly enhances my college experience. Since University of Tokyo does not offer artichokes in its cafeterias, Emory is clearly the best school in the world.</p>
<p>Ehh I heard Hawaii has better.</p>
<p>This may be true, but Hawaii has a much higher admittance rate than Emory so clearly the academic standards must be so low that anyone can get a degree. I mean it’s not like most of the weaker students would drop out after realizing they can’t handle college level work. Thus my point remains that for a wide variety of reasons, Emory, particularly Oxford College of Emory, is easily the best university in the world.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Penn</li>
</ol>
<p>Caltech, Berkeley, Northwestern, and Duke are knocking on the door though.</p>
<p>I put oxford @ emory at #13 behind CSUF because I think CSUF has a cooler name</p>
<p>How many other schools often put an at sign (@) in their names? I know CSUF doesn’t. Yet another reason why Oxford of Emory is THE best school in the world. If we’re talking about cool names, where does that put Furman University whose initials spell out FU or Cal State Chico, whose initials if you spell them out, sound like C Suck?</p>
<p>I consider the @ negative points sorry.</p>
<p>Well since “when” is a more commonly used word than “bark”, more English language learners have more familiarity with a part of my username than yours. Therefore my ranking system and its criteria must be superior to yours (how many people that aren’t fluent in English even know the word bark?!) so once again, Oxford @ Emory comes out on top.</p>
<p>For overall school prestige, influence, or simply recruiter/public perception, the only fact that is certain is that Harvard is number 1. Berkeley’s overall undergrad is not as strong as most of the ivies, but it’s overall research performance and grad programs are better. </p>
<p>RML’s ranking on page 1 of this thread is pretty accurate, and I’m not going to rehash what he said.</p>
<p>MIT
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
UC Berkeley
Oxford
Cambridge
Ecole Polytechnike
Columbia
University of Tokyo
U of Chicago
Imperial College</p>
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Why is Cal Tech a “comprehensive” school?</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Cambridge
Oxford</p>
<p>These are the ones most people agree on, or at least I think definitely belong here. The remaining three spots are creating some problems. Personally, I think that Columbia definitely belongs on the list. Although I would say if you include grad programs Berkeley would be higher, I don’t think at all it deserves to be in the top 10. So we still need to fill two more spots. I agree with whoever said that Chicago doesn’t have the reputation yet. As a recently admitted student you might think I have some bias, however, I could care less about a top10 list created on the internet. Regardless, I think Chicago belongs. After this I would say Caltech, and Penn are pretty even. I don’t know anything about UCL though. Adding my own subjective and personal thoughts, that gives a list of:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Cambridge
Oxford
Columbia
Chicago
UPenn (hard to choose)</p>
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Grad programs and faculty ultimately are the most important components of a world class research university. I don’t see how you can not include them.</p>
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Good grief! Chicago has always had and still has a stellar reputation…Manhattan Project…Milton Friedman…</p>
<p>2013 started excatly where 2012 ended. </p>
<p>Another useless thread about Berkeley ranking. When will leading the world in community college transfer admissions and providing the safest haven for nostalgic hippies be enough? </p>
<p>Soon enough, the threads about Berkeley will become undistinguishable from the ones debating the prestige of St Andrews.</p>